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Final Destination Director Given ‘Six’ Days to Live
After hitting a low point in his career with the abysmal ASYLUM, David R. Ellis is continuing his trend in genre filmmaking by directing Six Days Till Midnight, which is is about a wealthy businessman who encounters a stranger who says he has six days to answer one question. For each day he doesn’t get the answer, a loved one will be killed, ending with the businessman’s death at the end of the sixth day. Ellis had a long career as a stuntman before moving to second unit director and then helming the fright films FINAL DESTINATION 2, SNAKES ON A PLANE, and most recently FINAL DESTINATION 4, which he shot in 3-D and which New Line/Warner Bros. releases in August. “I’ve been doing high-concept B movies, and this is the best script I’ve been associated with, a thriller with a great twist,” says Ellis. Shooting begins in April on the film scripted by Mark Bacci.
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‘The Scurry’ – Ella Purnell Starring in Killer Squirrel Horror Comedy
Fresh off her starring role in the first season of Prime Video’s hit series “Fallout,” Ella Purnell (“Yellowjackets”) has booked a role in the upcoming horror-comedy The Scurry.
Screen Daily reports this morning that Ella Purnell has joined the cast of the now-filming horror comedy from director Craig Roberts, taking on “an avalanche of deranged squirrels.”
The site notes, “Ella Purnell will play the leading role of a park attendant who must use her unique skills and strength to survive a band of killer squirrels.”
“The film follows two pest controllers called to a country park café to investigate a routine vermin problem, only for an avalanche of deranged squirrels to descend at nightfall, wreaking mayhem on the staff and visitors in the park.”
Rhys Ifans (Spider-Man: No Way Home), Paapa Essiedu (Men), and Antonia Thomas (“The Good Doctor”) have all been previously announced to star in the upcoming movie.
Tim Telling wrote the screenplay for The Scurry.